VH-FNT Fokker F.27 Friendship
400QT
(c/n 10322)
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Registered PH-FKS, VH-FNT was first flown on March 3, 1967. It was
registered in Australia on
9
March and parked at Essendon on March 18 at the end of its delivery
flight . It entered service
with Ansett-ANA soon
after and was snapped by a 16-year-old David Carter (above) at Mascot
that same year. Ansett-ANA became Ansett Airlines of
Australia in 1968 and –FNT adopted the
new delta livery that came
with the change. The aircraft flew with other airlines in
the Ansett group,
including MMA, Air NSW and Ansett Air Freight. Air Nauru
leased it in 1972 pending delivery
of its Fokker F28s. –FNT flew its last service for
Ansett in June 1986 and was placed in open
storage at Tullamarine. It therefore did not receive the
contemporary Southern Cross livery.
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In March 1987, –FNT was sold to Air UK and ferried to Norwich, where it
was placed in storage
again . Its Australian registration was cancelled in
February 1988. A planned sale to Pakistan
International fell through and the aircraft was leased to Aviaco, of
Spain, as EC-EHG in March
1988. It returned to Norwich for storage in October
the same year . Ownership reverted to
Ansett in November 1989 and it was restored to the Australian register
in July 1990 However, it
. did not return to Australia nor
fly any services for Ansett, and was cancelled from the Australian reg-
ister yet again in
December 1991 Surely all these shenanigans were no
more than journal entries
on Ansett's balance
sheet. It was then leased to Canadian operator Brooker-Wheaton
Aviation as
C-FAFE. This operator, a
Fedex Canada subcontractor, became Morningstar Air Express in
August 1992. The lease ended in November 1993 and the former
–FNT was returned to Ansett,
which placed it in
storage at Marana, Arizona. The Peruvian Coast Guard
purchased it in October
1995 and gave it the serial number
AB584 . It was
reported in April 2016 as stored, without
propellers, at Lima.